In response to a report Sunday in The New York Times that Iran has announced that it is no longer willing to ship its enriched uranium stockpile to Russia, the State Department subsequently told the Times that the the final location of the stockpile has “not yet been decided.” Previous reports had indicated...

Iran has dispersed elements of its nuclear program to North Korea, introducing redundancy into its nuclear infrastructure that will undermine the usefulness of any deal, according to recently published articles by a range of journalists and policy analysts. Gordon Chang of The Daily Beast highlighted the likelihood that Iran is actively...

Members of the Israel-based Zaka rescue organization will fly to France to assist in the recovery efforts of those killed in last week’s plane crash, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported today: The eight volunteers from the ZAKA International Rescue Unit are scheduled to leave early Monday morning to assist in the search...

Jihadist websites belong to the Libyan terror group Ansar al-Sharia have claimed (Arabic link) that the group’s leader Abu Abdullah al-Libi pledged loyalty to Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Al-Libi announced his movement’s loyalty to ISIS in a video distributed in jihadist forums associated with the...

Islamist rebel forces fighting against the regime of Syria’s Iran-backed dictator Bashar al-Assad achieved an impressive achievement with the takeover (Arabic link) Sunday of the city of Idlib, a regional capital in northwestern Syria. Idlib overlooks the country’s main highways and is close to the Alawite stronghold in the coastal city...

The question of whether to trust Iran’s claims that its nuclear program is purely for peaceful purposes can be answered by a single issue: “Iran’s failure to deliver on multiple pledges to answer questions about its suspected research on nuclear warheads,” a staff editorial in The Washington Post asserted on...

The framework agreement currently taking shape in Lausanne, Switzerland is “extremely dangerous,” Brigadier General (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, former chief of the research division in IDF Military Intelligence and former Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs, said Sunday in a conference call hosted by The Israel Project. The Israel...

The Associated Press on Sunday reported that efforts in Lausanne, Switzerland to seal a nuclear framework agreement with Iran are being hampered by continuing Iranian demands regarding research and development of enrichment technology. The P5 +1 countries – the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia – are calling...

Placing trust in Iran to abide by the nuclear deal being negotiated would be “short-sighted and wrong,” Josh Block, the president and CEO of The Israel Project writes in an op-ed that was published yesterday in The New Jersey Star Ledger. The Israel Project published The Tower. Citing Ayatollah Ali...

Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa … Arad? If this southern Israeli city doesn’t come to mind when you think about touring Israel, Anna Sandler is working hard to put it there. Sandler is the tourist coordinator for this 52-year-old city bordering the Negev and Judean deserts. Its proximity to the Dead...